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LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Shirlene Wendy Siddall has held the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Leadership Academy for Guardians of Governance since 1 February 2023.
Prior to joining the Leadership Academy Shirlene was the Head of Internal Audit at SENTECH. With a career that has spanned more than 20 years, Shirlene has worked in many areas that include internal audit, financial controls, combined assurance, project management governance, risk and compliance, business process improvement, hotline reporting and investigation, and business analysis across various industries including Banking, Broadcasting, Mining, Petrochemical, and Telecoms.
She has also worked in countries and cultures other than South Africa, including the USA, and the UK, and across borders from SA with the UAE. Shirlene has a passion for developing people and assisting them to grow to their fullest potential. She is also a Gallup Clifton Strengths Coach.
Shirlene holds a BCom degree (majors in Accounting and Commercial Law) from Rhodes University and a BCom Honours degree from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant in South Africa, CA (SA).
I look forward to seeing you at our Leadership Academy Governance Conference on 15 May 2024, to be held at Hotel Sky in Sandton, with the themeGovernance 360: Navigating and Influencing the Future of Governance.
The Leadership Academy for Guardians of Governance is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Internal Auditors South Africa (IIASA). The Academy serves and trains professionals who fall within the greater ambit of governance and supports Professional Bodies in their quest to supply the market with high-performing professionals.
Our vision and mission are to be recognised as the skills development and quality assurance provider of choice and to provide high-quality skills development programmes and quality assurance services for Governance, Risk and Compliance professionals.
The programmes we offer are not only beneficial for trainees but also of benefit for experienced internal auditors in need of skills and/ or accredited qualifications.
1. CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD)
CPD Training Programmes are tailored to address different levels
of competency from Junior Internal Auditors through to Heads of Internal Audit. Training programmes are offered either Face to Face and Online (Instructor Led)
Categories available for CPD:
• Exam Preparation Courses for CIA and PIA
• Specialised Quality Assurance Courses
• CPD Courses - designed to assist professionals expand and enhance knowledge:
• Public Sector focused
• National Treasury endorsed courses
• Corporate Governance
• Data Analytics for Internal Auditors
• Integrated Internal Auditor –suite of IT courses
• Soft Skills
• Technical Skills in areas such as Project Management and Project Risks (APMR)
• Topical Issues like Ethics and the Internal Auditor (ETIA)
In-House Training
You can choose from our list of Training Programmes or we can design a programme to meet the professional development needs of your Team. Training is presented at a location of your choice. The advantages include alignment with your schedule, industryspecific case studies, and costs savings.
Skills Development Portal (Online Learning)
In partnerships with other professional bodies, we launched an on-demand skills development solution to meet individual and organisational skills development needs. Some of the benefits of this portal include, over 35 online learning programmes in different fields of study that provide over 50 CPD hours, for a once-off subscription fee for 12 months access to self-paced learning.
2. LEARNERSHIPS
Our focus as the Learnerships Team is to provide all the necessary tools and systems to assist your learners in obtaining their occupational qualifications.
Objectives of our Professional Training Programme
• To provide a comprehensive and structured developmental pathway for Internal Auditors.
• To develop and improve internal audit competencies and quality of the Internal Audit Activity (IAA) work.
• To provide relevant workplace training as reinforcement of academic qualifications using a standardised logbook for each occupational qualification.
Qualifications We Offer
We currently offer the following occupational qualifications, which are all steppingstones on the career path of an Internal Auditor:
1. Occupational Certificate: Internal Auditor
2. Occupational Certificate: Internal Audit Manager
3. Occupational Certificate: Internal Auditor: ICT
4. Occupational Certificate: Internal Audit Manager: Quality Assurer
Our learnership programmes are accredited by the IIASA and Quality Council For Trades and Occupations (QCTO).
Accessing Our Programmes
We can provide our training to all corners of the African region using various virtual platforms like MS Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet.
We also hold face-to-face classroom training centrally or where numbers allow at your workplace or country, as required.
3. QUALITY ASSURANCE SERVICES (QAS)
The International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) requires that the internal audit activity must collectively possess or obtain the knowledge, skills, and other competencies needed to perform its responsibilities.
We have a team of specialists with the necessary proficiency, experience, and insight obtained through years of continuous improvement, in applying good practice in the internal audit profession, and our team’s professional input is available to you.
Our Value Chain
Our value chain of quality assurance products is designed to assist any size of internal audit activity, in the private and public sector, to achieve successful industry practices and adherence to the mandatory elements of the IPPF, and to enhance the value-add proposi-tion of the internal audit function within their organisation.
Each of the seven products we provide, as shown below, focuses on the delivery of internal audit excellence. Their goal is to raise your internal audit activity to a level of quality where it provides increasing value to its stakeholders.
Our QAS product offering includes the following:
1. Setting up a Quality Assurance Improvement Programme (QAIP)
2. Internal Assessment Support
3. Readiness Assessment
4. External Quality Assessment
a) Full Assessment
b)Self-assessment with Independent Validation
5. Audit Committee Assessment
6. Quality Tuesday Webinars
7. Follow-up Assessment i.e., File Reviews.
CONTACT INFO:
Website: www.governanceacademy.co.za
Telephone:
+27 11 609 1761
CEO: Shirlene W. Siddall: Shirlene@governanceacademy.co.za
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In-House Training: Joanne Naidoo: Joanne@governanceacademy.co.za
CPD Training:
Neo Mashike: Neo@governanceacademy.co.za
Sharene Smit: Sharene@governanceacademy.co.za
LEARNERSHIPS
Lemmy Kave: Lemmy@governanceacademy.co.za
Betty Abebrese: Betty@governanceacademy.co.za
Setsoali Ngema: Setsoali@governanceacademy.co.za
QUALITY ASSURANCE SERVICES
Unathi Mnyimba: Unathi@governanceacademy.co.za
